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EPITAPH ON A CHILD by THOMAS GRAY

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE, FREED FROM PAIN, SECURE FROM MISERY, LIES
Last Line: NOW LET HIM SLEEP IN PEACE HIS NIGHT OF DEATH.
Subject(s): DEATH - CHILDREN; DEATH - BABIES;
HERE, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
A child, the darling of his parents' eyes:
A gentler Lamb ne'er sported on the plain,
A fairer flower will never bloom again:
Few were the days allotted to his breath;
Now let him sleep in peace his night of death.



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